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On October 30, 2018, while drinking tea in the garden in Austin, USA, I recalled the romantic time when I was young and read the novels of Gu Long and Cha Jinyong at my desk. It was an era without mobile phones and computers, and martial arts novels became our The biggest spiritual food, unlike modern people who go out with mobile phones and computers, I like to take a martial arts novel when I go out, to prove to the people around me that I am a chivalrous person, at least in writing. . .


Gu Long is a wonderful work. His novels are not as systematic and historical as Cha Jinyong, but Gu Long has the whimsical innovation ability. Gu Long's original name is Xiong Yaohua. Born in Hong Kong on June 7, 1938. He is a famous martial arts novelist and the master of new martial arts novels. He is also known as the four great masters of Chinese martial arts novels along with Zha Jinyong, Liang Yusheng and Wen Rui'an.


Representative works include "Sentimental Swordsman Ruthless Sword", "Peerless Twins", "Heroes Without Tears" and so on. Gu Long introduced martial arts novels into the palace of classic literature, brought drama, reasoning, poetry and other elements into traditional martial arts, and also integrated his unique philosophy of life into it, making Chinese and foreign classics merge into one furnace, creating a new era of modern martial arts novels. Wuxia literature has reached a new peak.


In 1955, he published the novel "From the North Country to the South Country" in Chenguang Magazine, under the pseudonym Gu Long, and started his professional writing career. Regarding the origin of Gu Long's pen name, there is a saying that Gu Long's first girlfriend was named Gu Feng, so he was named Gu Long. In 1958, Gu Long dropped out of school and lived with the dancer Zheng Yuexia (Lily) in the Zheng family in Ruifang Town, Taipei County. In order to make a living, he began to engage in the creation of martial arts novels. In 1960, published the martial arts debut "Sword of Heaven".


Since 1963, Gu Long has successively published six novels, including "Lover's Arrow", "Biography of the Great Banner Heroes", "Huanhua Washing the Sword Record", "Famous Swords", "Wulin Outer History" and "Peerless Twins". As one of the Four Heavenly Kings. From 1964 to 1966, "Huan Hua Xi Jian Lu" was published, which was a milestone in the creation of Gu Long's novels. "Musashi" and other Japanese era novels learned from the classics, explored the way of martial arts (the way of heaven), and opened up a new way of martial arts, thus starting Gu Long's unique way of describing martial arts.


In 1966, "Wulin Outer History" was published, which established the "prodigal son" flavor of Gu Long's martial arts novels and strengthened the modern sense of "Famous Swords". Gu Long's early works are relatively rigorous in structure and can echo from beginning to end.



The plot of the characters develops vertically, which can be opened and closed. There are many characters but not chaotic, and each has its own personality. The novel pays attention to exaggerating the atmosphere of the typical environment, revealing the personality of the characters through the changes of the plot, the masterpiece "Famous Sword and Merry".


"Peerless Twins" has an obvious allegorical tendency, and is the first long-form martial arts comedy that became popular. Ni Kuang, a well-known Hong Kong writer, invited Ming Pao to write "Peerless Twins", and he and Gu Long have been inseparable ever since. In 1967, "Legend of Iron and Blood" (later renamed "Legend of Chu Liuxiang") combined martial arts, literature and art, detective, reasoning, and fables in one. .


In 1969, Gu Long wrote the script "Xiao Shishilang" for director Xu Zenghong. This is also the first martial arts masterpiece that has a script first and then a novel. In 1976, Hong Kong Shaw Brothers made films based on "Meteor·Butterfly·Sword" and "The End of the World·Mingyue·Knife", which created another peak of martial arts movies and also created the era of Gu Long's movies.


In 1979, "Heroes Without Tears" was completed and entered a stage of decline, with a sharp decline in creation and rampant ghostwriting. At the end of 1980, he was hacked and injured while having a banquet at Yinsong Pavilion in Beitou.


On September 21, 1985, Gu Long died of massive hemorrhage from an esophageal tumor caused by liver cirrhosis at the age of 48. Gu Long created more than 70 martial arts novels in his lifetime, and more than 100 ghost-written and fake books. After Gu Long's death, there were copyright disputes in his works, and there were many lawsuits between relatives, friends and publishers, which affected the dissemination of Gu Long's works.


Gu Long has a relatively short lifespan. In contrast, Cha Jinyong in Hong Kong has a much longer life. But today I still heard the sad news from China. The famous martial arts novel master Cha Jinyong who accompanied me throughout my adolescence passed away. Went to drink with Gu Long.


Cha Jinyong (March 10, 1924 to October 30, 2018), whose real name was Cha Jinyong, was born in Haining City, Jiaxing City, Zhejiang Province, and moved to Hong Kong in 1948. Contemporary martial arts novelist, journalist, entrepreneur, political commentator, and social activist, known as one of the "Four Great Talents in Hong Kong", together with Gu Long, Liang Yusheng, and Wen Rui'an, are also known as the four great masters of Chinese martial arts novels .


In 1944, Zha Jinyong was admitted to the Diplomatic Department of Chongqing Central University. In the autumn of 1946, he entered Shanghai Ta Kung Pao as an interpreter for international telecommunications. In 1948, he graduated from the Law School of Soochow University in Shanghai and was transferred to the Hong Kong branch of Ta Kung Pao. In 1952, he was transferred to the editorial supplement of "New Evening News", and wrote the scripts of "Peerless Beauty" and "Orchid Flower". In 1959, Cha Jinyong and others founded Ming Pao in Hong Kong.



Since 1985, he has served as one of the heads of the Hong Kong legal team. . . In 1994, he was employed as an honorary professor of Peking University. . . In 2000, he was awarded the Grand Bauhinia Medal. In 2007, he became an honorary professor of the Faculty of Arts, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.


In September 2009, he was hired as the honorary vice chairman of the Chinese Writers Association; in the same year, he won the 2008 Lifetime Achievement Award for Chinese Who Influenced the World. In 2010, he received a Doctor of Philosophy degree from the University of Cambridge.

Cha Jinyong passed away in Hong Kong today at the age of 94. He was shortlisted for the 2018 candidates who moved our country.


My classmate Sister Chen said: Cha Jinyong's death really gave me the feeling that "an era is over". Suddenly Hu Fei, Guo Jing, and Linghu Chong all lost their color. Those martial arts movies that were made well or not well in the 1980s are really gone. Lin Qingxia drinks with her head up in the water, Jet Li practices martial arts in a secret room, Liang Jiahui walks in the wild sand of the desert, that kind of freehand martial arts movies are gone, and even Tsui Hark himself is running all the way in pursuit of special effects. We are getting farther and farther away from the rivers and lakes.


The literati and knight-errants let him go, and he will never be old in the world; when we meet in the world in the future, we will have a cup of wine and talk happily. . .


Zha Jinyong: Life is a big scene, and you leave quietly;


Cha Jinyong passed away this afternoon at the Hong Kong Sanatorium and Hospital due to illness. Zha Jinyong wrote many popular martial arts novels, including "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", "The Legend of Heaven and Slaying the Dragon", "The Eight Parts of the Heavenly Dragon", "The Swordsman", "The Deer and the Cauldron", etc. In addition to the literary field, Cha Jinyong has been involved in the media field for many years. After graduating from university in 1947, he was first employed by Shanghai "Ta Kung Pao" as an international news editor.


In 1948, the Hong Kong edition of "Ta Kung Pao" resumed publication, and translators were urgently needed. Cha Jinyong was transferred to Hong Kong by the newspaper office, and later transferred to be the editor of the supplement of "New Evening News". In 1959, he founded "Ming Pao"; in 1968, he founded "Ming Pao Weekly", which focuses on entertainment, celebrities and fashion. In 1969, "Ming Pao Evening Post" was founded. "Ming Pao" developed rapidly in the 1980s. In 1989, at the age of 65, Cha Jinyong announced his resignation from the post of president. In 1993, Cha announced his resignation as Chairman of the Board of Directors, and bid farewell to Ming Pao, which he founded.


Feixue shoots the white deer in the sky, and the laughing book hero leans on Biyuan. He has achieved outstanding achievements in his life, but now the superstar has fallen!


Cha Jinyong, whose real name is Cha Jinyong, was born in Haining, Zhejiang Province in 1924. He came from a famous family and may become a lawyer, judge or diplomat. The "hero" Zha Jinyong has carried the youth of countless of us, and what has been imprinted in the memory of several generations is another piece he created for us. The martial arts arena of chivalry, righteousness, kindness and hatred, chills anyone in the Northwest The sword is full of flutes in the southeast. He started writing in 1955 and closed it in 1972. In 17 years, he completed 15 well-known works, all classics, and film and television dramas adapted from novels. We are even more famous. Never tire of watching, every teenager who has watched Zha Jinyong's martial arts drama must have his own world of swords, lights, swords and shadows, and changing winds and clouds.


Although he is called "Cha Daxia" because of his creation of many heroic heroes, Cha Jinyong thinks this title is too much: "If I choose a character in my novel, I would like to be Tianlongba. Duan Yu in the Ministry, he does not have the domineering power to overwhelm others, he always leaves room for others." Ni Kuang once commented that "Duan Yu has superb martial arts, but Zhu Ha's magical skills seem to have not been used much. It can't be used, but it is very useful when fighting wine, and Lingbo Weibu can be used to escape, it is very practical."


In terms of character, Duan Yu is knowledgeable, kind and stubborn, and was nicknamed "Crazy" by his parents. From this point of view, these characteristics of Duan Yu are somewhat similar to Cha Jinyong.

Cha Jinyong, whose real name is Cha Jinyong, was born in Haining, Zhejiang Province. His ancestors were from a famous family. He was not only good at doing business, but also produced many learned descendants. Although Zha Jinyong's family was in decline when he was born, he still had 3,000 mu of fertile land. Boys are naughty, but he is different. There are many books in the family, so he spends all day in the pile of books, forgetting to eat and sleep.


His father was afraid that he would make mistakes in reading, so he tried every means to let him go out to play. Once, his father dragged him out to fly a kite, and when he turned around, Cha Jinyong disappeared. My father was in a hurry: "I'm afraid I will be abducted by others." After searching for a long time, I couldn't find it, so I went home and saw, "This kid is just soaking in the study." In terms of reading, Zha Jinyong can also be regarded as an "idiot." Son". But although he loves books and becomes obsessed, he is not dull, on the contrary, he also has a talent for doing business. In fact, his real debut novel is not the martial arts novel "Sword of Enmity and Enmity", but a compilation of test questions called "For Junior High School Candidates", which was compiled by Cha Jinyong and two other students according to the content of the test Write your own questions.


This book on the compilation of test questions sold well in several provinces, and the first pot of money he earned was enough to send him to university. He was only fifteen years old then. So fate took him into another direction of life. In the autumn of 1946, "Ta Kung Pao" published a notice: open to the whole country to recruit three international telecommunications editors. Applicants flocked, as many as 3,000 people.

Cha Jinyong was selected by virtue of his talent and entered Shanghai "Ta Kung Pao", officially entering his career as a newspaperman. In 1948, the Hong Kong edition of "Ta Kung Pao" resumed publication, and Cha Jinyong was sent to work in Hong Kong, which also became the most important turning point in his life. Working in Hong Kong was not a good job at that time. Compared with today's international metropolises, Hong Kong at that time was much worse than Shanghai.


But Hong Kong is developing, and Cha Jinyong's life as a reporter and as Cha Jinyong is also on the right track step by step. In 1950, "New Evening News" under "Ta Kung Pao" was founded, and Cha Jinyong was transferred to "New Evening News" as a supplementary editor. At that time, Luo Fu, the editor-in-chief of "New Evening News", noticed that the competition ring would attract the attention of many people. So he had an idea and decided to invite editor Chen Wentong to serialize martial arts novels in newspapers.


The serialization of the novel caused a sensation, and since then opened the door to new martial arts novels. This novel is called "Dragon and Tiger Fighting Jinghua", and Chen Wentong gave himself a pen name, "Liang Yusheng". At the beginning of February 1955, Liang Yusheng's "Legend of the Grass Dragon and Snake" was almost finished, but he hadn't decided what to write next. Luo Fu had no choice but to find another martial arts fan, Zha Jinyong: "Liang Yusheng can't take care of it anymore, only you."



So Zha Jinyong's debut martial arts work "Book and Sword Enmity Record" came out, and the response even surpassed that of Liang Yusheng. He divided the last word of his name into two and signed it "Cha Jinyong". After the 1950s, the political atmosphere in Hong Kong was more complicated. Wherever he went, there was a lot of lies. Cha Jinyong couldn't bear it anymore: "I have to speak up." So he found his former classmate Shen Baoxin, and the two invested together to establish "Ming Pao".


It costs 100,000 yuan to run Ming Pao, but Cha Jinyong paid 80,000 yuan himself. He invested all the money he earned from writing novels and manuscripts. His daily editorial is unique among many newspapers. At that time, Zha Jinyong was writing novels and editorials at the same time. The novels required eight or nine hundred words, and the editorials required more than a thousand words. Also pay attention to the international news at any time, which consumes a lot of energy.


Every day when he opened his eyes, there was a 2,000-word manuscript waiting for him. I don’t even eat dinner, so I have to write a good editorial to sit down and eat with peace of mind. When the editorial is finished, it is usually time for the newspaper to be published. I often see Zha Jinyong writing on the sidelines, and the newspaper typesetter is standing beside him waiting for him. Zha Jinyong has continued to speak out for justice, and has also incorporated the theme of family, country and world into the novels, so there are "The Legend of Condor Heroes", "Flying Fox", "Yi Tian Tu Long Ji"...


As a public figure who continues to speak out, Cha Jinyong will inevitably be regarded as a thorn in the side of some forces. Someone said: To eliminate five Hong Kong people, the second one is Cha Jinyong. Cha Jinyong said: "Although I have become the target of assassination, my life is threatened, and I can't help being afraid, but I will never succumb to unreasonable pressure, so that I will be looked down upon by the heroes in my book."

During the most dangerous period, Cha Jinyong heard the news and ran to Europe to hide for a month. The serialized "Dragon Babu" had to ask Ni Kuang to write it. A month later, Cha Jinyong returned to Hong Kong. Ni Kuang smiled and said to him: "I'm sorry, sorry, I hate Ah Zi, so I wrote her eyes blind." But Cha Jinyong, who did not give in, wrote the fable novel "Swordsman" and social problem novels. "Deer Ding Ji". "For the country and the people, a great chivalrous man" can be described as a true portrayal of Cha Jinyong.


In the 1970s, the atmosphere of public opinion returned to calm. In 1972, Cha Jinyong announced that he would close his pen: "If there are no accidents, "The Deer and Ding Tale" will be my last martial arts novel." Cha Jinyong has written 14 martial arts novels, all of which are classics. However, although Zha Jinyong's reputation is resounding both at home and abroad, and he is knowledgeable about history and governance, he still feels that he is not knowledgeable enough.


Therefore, even after receiving an honorary doctorate from Cambridge University, Cha Jinyong insisted on choosing to apply for a doctorate from Cambridge University as an ordinary student. At that time, he was already 81 years old. When he was studying at Cambridge, Cha Jinyong was just like an ordinary student. Carrying a backpack full of textbooks. For a while, Zha Jinyong still rode a bicycle to class, but he gave up because his wife was worried that it would be dangerous.


Going to school in Cambridge, Cha Jinyong became the Mr. Cha that others didn't pay much attention to. He no longer has the halo of a well-known writer, and is no longer the dean of a liberal arts school at a certain university in Zhejiang. Everything he does is "not for a degree, but for learning." This is completely different from most Chinese who spend money to study in college and get a diploma. . .

Some students wanted to take pictures and sign Cha Jinyong. Cha Jinyong said: "I am a student now, not a writer. When I am not a student, I will sit down with you for dinner and tea."



Someone once asked Zha Jinyong: "How should life be spent?" The old man replied: "Make a big fuss and leave quietly." Why can't a person's life be a martial arts novel, in which the first half of life is indulgent and reckless, and the second half of life is full of awe and continuous learning. Just like the life of Hero Zha, respectable and lamentable.

His books have become the common language of Chinese people. This is an extremely high rating. What can be called "the common language of Chinese people"? For example, "Moonlight in front of the bed" is also true. But in fact, just like calligraphy, it is all techniques to hold back and press, hide and reveal the front. Compared with him, all the contemporary martial arts novelists, not to mention others, are at least one level behind in terms of "skills".


Cha Jinyong used to be a film screenwriter and director. Yes, the audience read it right, and he was not just playing for tickets, he was a professional. In the words of the Internet today, he is a typical "slash youth". If time goes back to 1958, he wrote more movie scripts than martial arts novels. He adapted "Pride and Prejudice" into "A Girl with Prejudice". His "Peerless Beauty" won a grand prize from the Ministry of Culture of our country.

Cha Jinyong's grandfather, Cha Wenqing, was a proud and loyal man. He was dissatisfied with foreigners bullying our people. At that time, people burned churches. As an official, he took the lead in resigning to quell the incident in order to protect the people. Influenced by his grandfather, Cha Jinyong understood that reading must be necessary to save the suffering of the nation, so he especially loves reading books about history, such as "Zizhi Tongjian" and "Twenty-Five Histories".


Another person who deeply influenced Zha Jinyong was his father Zha Shuqing. When Cha Jinyong was young, he cut and saved the martial arts novel "Woman of the Wild River" for him every day, which made him very interested in martial arts novels. Later, he took the initiative to watch "Water Margin" and "Seven Heroes and Five Righteousness" etc. The works laid the foundation for writing martial arts novels in the future.

In the Qing Dynasty, the Cha family had "one family with seven Jinshi, uncles and nephews and five Hanlins". Kangxi called it "a giant family since the Tang and Song Dynasties, and there are countless families in the south of the Yangtze River". "And other plaques. The Xu family is a wealthy businessman in the ancient town, and their ancestors have been running a soy sauce garden, a silk shop, and a money shop. Cha Jinyong's biological mother, Xu Lu, was the youngest cousin of the poet Xu Zhimo's father. In 1914, Xu Lu and Zha Shuqing married. After they got married, Xu Lu and Zha Shuqing had a deep relationship, and they gave birth to five sons, Cha Liangkeng, Cha Jinyong, Cha Lianghao, Cha Liangdong, and Cha Liangyu, and two daughters, Cha Liangxiu and Cha Liangxuan. In 1937, Xu Lu died of acute bacillary dysentery. That year, Cha Jinyong was only 13 years old.


Cha Jinyong's stepmother, Gu Xiuying, was originally Cha's maid "Yueyun". Gu Xiuying was escorted to the Cha family when she was 11 years old, and she first served Cha Jinyong's grandmother. She was taken back by her mother when she was in her 20s, and later went to Shanghai to work as a maid. Therefore, she did not follow the Cha family across the river when they fled. Xu Lu died of illness for three years, Zha Shuqing continued, and Gu Xiuying, who was 17 years younger than him, became his new wife and took on the responsibility of raising the youngest son. Later, she gave birth to four sons, Cha Liangcheng, Cha Liangnan, Cha Liangbin, and Cha Lianggen, and two daughters, Cha Liangqi and Cha Liangmin.

At the beginning of the war, her husband died young. In 1958, when there was no food and no firewood, she sold the two old houses she lived in, and was accused of "the landowner's wife wanted to counterattack and reckon" and was beaten severely for three days and three nights. In 1989, Gu Xiuying died at the age of 77.



Like Chaplin, Zha Jinyong was talented and romantic. He married three times in his life. His first wife was Du Zhifen. In 1947, the two met in Hangzhou. When Zha Jinyong visited Du Yeqiu, a friend of his colleague, he met Du Zhifen, a 17-year-old lady from the Du family, and they both fell in love. In 1948, on the eve of going south to Hong Kong, Cha Jinyong rushed to Hangzhou to formally propose marriage. Later, Du Zhifen also went to Hong Kong. Cha Jinyong was busy with work and had no time to accompany her. She was lonely and bored, and had an unhappy time. In the end, she returned to mainland China, and the two went through the divorce procedures.


Cha Jinyong's second wife was Zhu Mei, a journalist, and they married on May 1, 1956. Zha Jinyong first created "Ming Pao", prepared for hardships, Zhu Mei shared weal and woe with him, and even sold jewelry to support "Ming Pao". When the career is successful, the marriage cracks. Cha Jinyong and Zhu Mei had two sons and two daughters.


Cha Jinyong's third wife is Lin Leyi. In 1976, Zha Jinyong broke up with Zhu Mei, filed for divorce, and married Lin Leyi, who was 29 years younger. She was only sixteen years old when she met Cha Jinyong, more than 20 years younger than Cha Jinyong. The two of them sparked their love in a hotel in Zhajiao Lichi.

Cha Jinyong's cousin is Xu Zhimo, and his uncle Jiang Baili is also the father-in-law of the father of the missile. . .


The exploration of historical significance and value is everywhere in Cha Jinyong's novels. By portraying the grievances and grievances between martial arts schools, between people, between religion and secularism, between orthodox religion and cults, between nations and nations, and between dynasties in his novels, he finally created different individuals, Various tragedies of sects, countries, nations, churches, and dynasties. In essence, Cha Jinyong is trying to express strong tragic feelings in his novels, aiming to achieve the effect of deconstructing negative values ​​and promoting positive values.

In Zha Jinyong's novels, "emotion" and "reason" profoundly embody the eternal contradiction between the essence of life and traditional morality, specifically the conflict between love and moral norms. Apparently, Zha Jinyong's works don't contain too many sermons about suppressing passion and desire, let alone the phenomenon of promiscuity that goes against traditional moral culture. Only through the description of "emotion" and "reason", he showed the world the tragic consciousness in love, and through the appropriate description and publicity of people's real life, he reflected the resistance to the "reason" that imprisoned people and social development. Cha Jinyong's consciousness of love tragedy is the eulogy of modern love.


Cha Jinyong organically integrates his works and his characters into a distinct historical background. For example, "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" is set in the early Southern Song Dynasty, the confrontation between Song and Jin, and the rise of Mongolia. The historical background of "Dragon Babu" is the era when the Song, Liao, Xixia and Dali regimes were criss-crossed. "The Deer and Ding Tale" describes the fierce conflict between the Manchu and Han nationalities in the early Qing Dynasty.

At the same time, under the premise of respecting historical facts, Mr. Zha Jinyong incorporated many real historical figures into his literary works, such as Wanyan Honglie, Yue Fei, Duan Shi of Dali, Zhu Yuanzhang, Emperor Kangxi, Gu Yanwu, etc. These real characters in history and the virtual characters in the novel complement each other, and the addition of fiction and reality makes the novel more real and vivid, and it is easier for readers to accept the whole story without making people feel illusory.

In general martial arts novels, there are very few descriptions of the relationship between men and women. Even if there is a single woman, it is usually an embellishment in the novel. But in the novels described by Cha Jinyong, love plays a pivotal role in the novels and becomes the main body in the novels, and the status of women in the novels has been greatly improved. In the novel, there is an emotional penetration of male and female characters, which makes the content of the novel rich and colorful. In addition, it also enhances the novel's interest and attractiveness. . .


Jumbo Huang citation resources: Louis Cha Leung-yung GBM OBE (Chinese: Cha Leung-yung; 6 February 1924 to 30 October 2018), better known by his pen name Jin Yong (Chinese Jin Yong), was a Chinese wuxia ("martial arts and chivalry") novelist and essayist who co-founded the Hong Kong daily newspaper Ming Pao in 1959 and served as its first editor-in-chief. His wuxianovels have a widespread following in Chinese communities worldwide. His 15 works written earned between 1955 and 197 him a reputation as one of the greatest and most popular wuxia writers ever. By the time of his death he was the best-selling Chinese author, and over 100 million copies...Millions of people are mourning Jin Yong — the pen name for novelist Louis Cha — after the giant of Chinese pop culture and literature died on Tuesday. Cha wrote epic stories that created an underpinning for the pageantry and fantasy of martial arts films. Cha was 94. He died in Hong Kong, where he moved from mainland China in the 1940s to work as an author a nd journalist. In addition to his novels in the wuxia adventure genre, Cha co-founded the newspaper Ming Pao, which he led for decades. His work has been translated into numerous film, TV series, and stage productions. White Deer Whirling snow blankets the sky, I hunt white deer, Laughing book god Xia Yibiyuan


Laughing as I write legends of chivalry and romance…Spinning stories about fantastical adventures in ancient China, Cha combined action sequences with romance and emotional entanglements, giving ballast to the high-flying acrobatics of swordplay and combat…